When to Choose Home Health

After surgery, hospitalization or illness which requires healing and recovery at home, receiving quality home care can be especially helpful. Also, after a new health care diagnosis which requires a change in daily lifestyle, it can be particularly effective.

Here are some key factors that may determine eligibility for home health care:

Limits on physical mobility.

Chronic illness with periods of instability.

Need for assistance with IV medication for infection.

Need for tube feeding support.

Walking assistance is required.

To leave the home, assistance is required due to a medical condition.

Ability to leave the home is limited due to multiple diseases or recent diagnoses.

Limits on physical mobility due to stroke or general weakness.

Surgery which was recent or is scheduled.

Being on oxygen.

Falls which are frequent.

Due to immobility or changes in condition, anxiety or psychological challenges have developed.

Changes in several medications.

Multiple visits to the emergency room (ER) or admission to the hospital.